Safety and efficacy of N-acetylcysteine
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Christine Kortsalioudaki; Rachel M. Taylor; Paul Cheeseman; Sanjay Bansal; Giorg
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Acute liver failure (ALF) carries a high mortality in children. N-acetylcysteine (NAC), an antioxidant agent that replenishes mitochondrial and cytosolic glutathione stores, has been used in the treatment of late acetaminophen-induced ALF and non-acetaminophen-induced ALF. In our unit, NAC was intro